Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts

List of contents

• Introduction: A Winter Queen?


• Prologue


• Part I: 1596-1612


• 1: A Family Reunion


• 2: Periwigs and Powder Plots


• 3: Protestant Unions


• 4: The Marriage of Thames and Rhine


• Part II: 1613-1620


• 5: Heidelberg - The Eye of the Storm


• 6: In the Service of the Electress


• 7: Queen of Bohemia


• 8: Troubles in Prague Escalate


• Part III: 1621-1632


• 9: A Republican Queen


• 10: Military Manoeuvres


• 11: Unseverable Ties with Austria and Spain


• 12: 'I can send you nothing but deaths'


• 13: An 'Evil State'


• 14: Losing Champions


• Part IV: 1632-1642


• 15: A Widow's Weeds


• 16: Unlikely Bedfellows


• 17: The Archbishop Strikes Back


• Part V: 1642-1662


• 18: Obeisance to His Majesty and Love to the Parliament


• 19: Undesirable Matches, Unfortunate Endings


• 20: Three Widows


• Epilogue: Turn Out the Lights

About the author

Nadine Akkerman is Professor in Early Modern Literature and Culture at Leiden University and author of the critically acclaimed Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain and of The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia. In 2017 she was elected to The Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and received a Special Recognition Award from the World Cultural Council, and in 2019 received an Ammodo Science Prize for fundamental research in the humanities.

Summary

Elizabeth Stuart is one the most misrepresented - and underestimated - figures of the seventeenth century. This biography reveals the impact that she had on both England and Europe.

Additional text

In Queen of Hearts, Nadine Akkerman combines matchless archival expertise with a story-teller's instinct to give new life to one of the seventeenth century's most misunderstood women. A gripping tale.

Product details

• Authors: Nadine Akkerman, Nadine (Professor in Early Modern Litera Akkerman, Akkerman Nadine, Nadine (Professor in Early Modern Literature and C
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.12.2021
• EAN: 9780199668304
• ISBN: 978-0-19-966830-4
• No. of pages: 624
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; England, Europe, European History, Biography: historical, political & military, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Royalty, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), CE period up to c 1500, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Biography: historical, political and military, European history: medieval period, middle ages, C 1600 To C 1700